[Wikipedia-l] Re: server down

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> writes:

> On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:00 am, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
>> aparently, the wikipedia server is down.  This hasn't been reported on the
>> list, although this might have been because the email server is down too.
>
> You might be surprised to know that the Wikipedia encyclopedia and the 
> Wikipedia mail server are both on the same box.
>
> [...]
>
> Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't 
> exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia.   

In this context I have a question: I have very often problems with
the connection speed to Wikipedia, especially the time when the
first bytes flow after a page request.  Is this a problem on my side
or is the Wikipedia server sometimes just swamped?

Tschoe,
Torsten.